Actions of Meeting

Nick Floyd reported for Terry
Holland who had to be out of town.† Floyd
reported:

That the Hawaii Bowl had been
great experience for the players.† They
were exposed to a culture that many would have never had the opportunity to
experience.† The game also brought a good
deal of general, positive publicity to the University.† It should provide the athletics program with
good momentum going forward.

The Pirates will open the 2008
football season in Charlotte
at Bank of America Stadium versus Va Tech.

ECU finished the 2007 football
season 56th nationally in regards to home football attendance by
averaging just over 41,000 per game.† In
CUSA only CFU was higher and of non-BCS schools only Hawaii,
Utah and BYU
reported higher attendance.

Stated that he felt community
services by our student-athletes was outstanding.† This has been a point of emphasis for the
program.† During the 2006-07 year
athletes performed 4018 hours of service.†
This academic year the goal is 4100 hours.† This number has steadily increased over the
past five years.

††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† Dr.
Dosser praised football player Joe Sloan pointing out that his ability to
handle a high snap enabled to game winning field goal to be kicked at the
Hawaii Bowl.† Dr Dosser noted that Mr.
Sloan currently holds a 4.0 GPA.†

††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† Dr.
Dosser surrendered the rest of his time to Jennifer Bonner

Agenda Item:†††††††††††† Report from Jennifer Bonner, Coordinator of the
tutoring program

††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† Ms. Bonner
was asked to report as a result of the incident involving a tutor at FloridaStateUniversity.† The tutor provided answers to test questions
for student athletes (and other students) enrolled in and online course.† The result was the suspension of more than 20
players from FSUís bowl game.† Further
action in the matter is pending.

††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† Ms. Bonner
reported that she currently employed 103 student tutors.† Request for tutors have increased
substantially in recent years from 114 requests in fall 2005 to 400 requests in
fall 2007.

††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† Ms Bonner
reported that all tutors go through training that includes material on academic
integrity.† She also pointed out that the
contract tutors sign include stipulations regarding academic integrity.† She also pointed out that all tutors are good
students (a 3.0 GPA is required but most are much higher) and that they would
be risking their own student status if they were involved in any form of
cheating.† The job descriptions tutors
receive are very specific about appropriate aid they can provide.† Tutors are not permitted to be present if
students are working on online quizzes.†
Tutors are also networked with faculty members who provide guidance
regarding the appropriate role for tutors in aiding students when writing
projects or doing computer-programming projects.† Policies also exist that preclude students
who have personal relationships with a student-athlete to serve as his/her tutor.

††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† Two specific
challenges the tutoring program faces are facilities and staffing.† There can be a need to find space for between
150-300 tutors and student athletes during a single study hall period.† A number of facilities are used including
several rooms in Ward and the press box at the baseball stadium.† Pay for tutors is $7/hour for undergrads and
$10/hour for grad students.† The fact
that there is not consistent schedule or hours is a disincentive to some
potentials tutors.

Action Taken:††††††††††† Dr. Felts proposed a slate of members to serve to
revise the universityís athletics gender equity plan.† Nick Floyd suggested that Gary Overton be
added to that committee.† With that
addition the voting members unanimously approved the roster (see attachment A).

†††††††††††

Agenda Item:†††††††††††† Other Business

††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† ECU SGA
President Keri Brockett reported that there would be an SGA sponsored event
prior to the 1/19 basketball game to celebrate the football teamís bowl victory.

The committee then adjourned.† The academic integrity subcommittee met.†

The basketball teamís improved academic performance was
documented.† This is important in light
of the NCAA APR sanction already in place against the program.† A table documenting this progress is attached
(Attachment B).

Concerns were noted regarding the performance of freshmen
football players and the womenís track team.†
Nita Boyce will report at a future meeting concerning causes for these
difficulties and measures being taken to rectify them.† Attachment C contains aggregate data
comparing academic performance of teams for the last five fall semesters.